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The Vlt Lbg Redshift Survey I: Clustering And Dynamics Of ≈ 1000 Galaxies At Z ≈ 3⋆, R. M. Bielby, T. Shanks, P. M. Weilbacher, L. Infante, N. H.M. Crighton, C. Bornancini, N. Bouché, P. Héraudeau, D. G. Lambas, James D. Lowenthal, D. Minniti, N. Padilla, P. Petitjean, T. Theuns
The Vlt Lbg Redshift Survey I: Clustering And Dynamics Of ≈ 1000 Galaxies At Z ≈ 3⋆, R. M. Bielby, T. Shanks, P. M. Weilbacher, L. Infante, N. H.M. Crighton, C. Bornancini, N. Bouché, P. Héraudeau, D. G. Lambas, James D. Lowenthal, D. Minniti, N. Padilla, P. Petitjean, T. Theuns
Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We present the initial imaging and spectroscopic data acquired as part of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) VIMOS Lyman-break galaxy Survey. UBR (or UBVI) imaging covers five ≈36 × 36 arcmin fields centred on bright z > 3 quasi-stellar objects (QSOs), allowing ≈210002 < z < 3.5 galaxy candidates to be selected using the Lyman-break technique. We performed spectroscopic follow-up using VLT VIMOS, measuring redshifts for 1020 z > 2 Lyman-break galaxies and 10 z > 2 QSOs from a total of 19 VIMOS pointings. From the galaxy spectra, we observe a 625 ± 510kms velocity offset between the interstellar absorption and Lyman α emission-line redshifts, consistent with previous results. Using the photometric and spectroscopic catalogues, we have analysed the galaxy clustering at z≈ 3. The angular correlation …
Fabry-Perot Images Of Ngc 1275 And Its Puzzling High-Velocity System, Adeline Caulet, Bruce E. Woodgate, Larry W. Brown, Theodore R. Gull, Paul Hintzen, James D. Lowenthal, Ronald J. Oliversen, Michael M. Ziegler
Fabry-Perot Images Of Ngc 1275 And Its Puzzling High-Velocity System, Adeline Caulet, Bruce E. Woodgate, Larry W. Brown, Theodore R. Gull, Paul Hintzen, James D. Lowenthal, Ronald J. Oliversen, Michael M. Ziegler
Astronomy: Faculty Publications
We report the first images obtained with the Goddard Fabry-Perot imager, a very sensitive and tunable imaging system designed to achieve the high levels of performance required in the optical studies of faint emission-line extragalactic objects. A velocity sequence of calibrated narrow-band CCD images (FWHM ∼7 Å) has been obtained to cover the 3000 km s-1 velocity space between the redshifted Hα emission lines of NGC 1275 (the central dominant galaxy of the Perseus Cluster), its extended associated system of low-velocity (LV) filaments and the high-velocity (HV) system of knots, projected on the same line of sight in the sky. …